Power, In A Nutshell, Is

If You Look Back On The History Of The 20th Century, The 19th Century Or Even To The Ancien Régime Of The 18th, You Will See That First People Rebelled Against The Order Of The Things Because Of Lack Of Liberty, And Demanded More Freedom. And When They Got More Freedom, They Got Frightened, And They Desired More Security For A Change. After A While, They Started Complaining, Although More Secure, They Also Become More Dependent And Rule-bound.

What Is Happening Now Is That The Number Of People Who Are Not Strong Enough Or Do Not Feel Strong Enough To Decide To Live Without The Security Provided By The Community Or The State, Is Going Up.

As Long As Being A Stranger And Surrounded By Strangers Was Seen As A Temporary Irritant, A Smallest Departure From The Binding Rules Of Conduct By A Member Of A Minority, Was Taken For A Major Crime Justifying Deportation.

I Suspect That One Of Capitalism's Crucial Assets Derives From The Fact That The Imagination Of Economists, Including Its Critics, Lags Well Behind Its Own Inventiveness, The Arbitrariness Of Its Undertaking And The Ruthlessness Of The Way In Which It Proceeds.

Every Interpretation Is But An Introduction To Another Interpretation, And That Is How Talmud Pages Are Printed.